Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 17:161-170

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Çri Våndävana-nagara-varnana

Description of Çri Våndävana

Chapter 17: Verse 161-170

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 161.Outside the walls were two gates and inside were seven gates with jewel doors. 162.Then he built twenty-four palaces with rubies and sandalwood pillars, . . . 163. . . . and with many stairways built of jewels the color of kuìkuma, palaces splendid with many wonderful sapphire domes decorated with pictures and designs, . . . 164. . . . and beautiful with jewel doors and splendid golden domes. 165.After building Nanda's abode, he went here and there, building many kinds of beautiful royal roads, . . . 166.. . . lined with many beautiful ruby buildings and courtyards, great and small, . . . 167. . . . and splendid with jewel pavilions of merchants' shops on the left and right. 168.Then he went ot Våndävana forest and built a beautiful räsa-dance circle of precious jewels, . . . 169.. . . with eight miles of jewel courtyards, ninety million jewel pavilions, . . . 170. . . . wonderful, colorful, elaborate couches for amorous pastimes, and breezes scented by many kinds of flowers, . . .